National Stationery Week 2015

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Last week was national stationery week, and I meant to write about it during the actual week, alas time got away from me and I didn’t really quite know where to start! I thought I’d share some of my favourite pieces of stationery, and why I love them! I’ll start with pens today and share more as time goes on!

PensI love to write and being a lefty I sometimes struggle to find a nice pen that works for me. I found this awesome website, Cult Pens that stocks a huge range of amazing different pens in all sorts of colours. I’ll share links from there but you can buy them elsewhere too. (I wonder if I’ll get through this post without spending lots of pennies!!)

This is a lovely pen to write with and I particularly like the pink colour. It is great for letter writing and doesn’t show through paper, or bleed. I also like that it is disposable, so I don’t have to worry about carrying cartridges around.

This is a great fineliner. I used the black version for the seating plan and invitations for my friends wedding recently. It writes really smoothly and again, no bleeding or leakage. A great value pen and I always have one knocking around in my bag or on my desk.

There is also the Sharpie (seems like an endless number of colours! They retail for £1.10 on Cult Pens).

They are the pen of autographs! But I love them for so many different jobs, writing on plastic, addressing packages, writing on odd surfaces. They are so useful and I don’t know how many colours I have!

Stabilo fineliners come in a huge range of colours, this set retails for £11.99 on Cult Pens.

I have a similar set to this, and it is great for organising my diary and my to do list. They are really very fine and I did try and colour with them but it didn’t really work! Colour makes me happy and being able to organise with it is really helpful.

This is just a selection of some of the lovely pens I use, I jump around from pen to pen and I’m always looking for new ones to try. Do you have a favourite type?

I had the best intentions to write about it too, then I couldn’t find the prompts, then when I did find my prompts I couldn’t remember where I’d read them so then I couldn’t really blog about it without attributing them to the right place and then it was just too complicated and the weekend arrived.
I am such a snob when it comes to pens – it’s an addiction too! On Saturday while I had the house to myself I had a major clear out, another bin bag of clothes and bags to the charity shop, but also cleared out a whole box of pens that i had of varying varieties. A friend of mine is a teacher and has use for second hand pens so I sorted out a stack to go to her (well it’s better than binning them or me hoarding them)